Movie function crashes in Windows

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Using the movie() function from scitools.all

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output is a gif file with an animation

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using Windows Vista.

Please provide any additional information below.

I get an Windows error message telling me that Imagemagick has a problem 
and must be closed. In the command window, it tells me about some convert 
problems "img_0001.eps to easyviz_tmp_0001.png \n convert failed, jumping 
to next file..." 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hrme...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2008 at 2:56

Attachments:

• plot_wavepacket_movie.py

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I am not a Windows expert but I think you might need to install GhostScript in 
order
to deal with PostScript files. Try to save the images as PNG files instead:

for i in range(60):
    ...
    plot(x,y, axis=[-6,6,-2,2], hardcopy="img_%04d.png" % c, show=False)
    ...

movie("img_*.png")

Johannes

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2008 at 11:54

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Thanks for the answer.

I have though installed Ghostscript, and have tried the movie function using 
png as 
format, and that didn't work either.

Original comment by hrme...@gmail.com on 12 Dec 2008 at 12:40

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Can you be more specific on what the problem was with the PNG files?

Johannes

Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 15 Dec 2008 at 12:11

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I think I've found the problem. (though not the solution) When I try to run 
ImageMagick from the Start Menu, I get the same message ("Imagemagick has a 
problem 
and must be shut down")

Original comment by hrme...@gmail.com on 18 Dec 2008 at 1:10

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Original comment by johannes...@gmail.com on 10 Sep 2009 at 11:46

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